THE SYSTEM OF REWARDS AND SANCTIONS FOR EMPLOYEES OF SOVIET CENSORSHIP BODIES IN THE FIRST POST-WAR YEARS

Abstract

In this article, the peculiarities of labor legislation during World War II and the first post-war years have been examined. It has been noted that during the war, labor legislation was characterized by increased liability for violations of labor discipline. In the post-war years, wartime restrictions were gradually eliminated from the legal regulation of labor relations, the norms of which also applied to employees of Soviet censorship bodies. It has been shown that among the reward forms of censors, the most common was the awarding of the medal “For Valorous Labor in the Great Patriotic War” and the Certificate of Honor for “excellent performance” in the protection of state and military secrets in the press and on the radio. Disciplinary sanctions were also applied to censorship employees. The grounds for their application were most often the untimely submission of reporting documentation and the disclosure of information constituting military and state secrets. Official sanctions were imposed with the following wording: “to issue a warning”, “reprimand”, “severe reprimand”, “reprimand to the personnel file”, “dismissal from position”, “dismissal from censorship bodies”. The disclosure of the research topic was carried out by involving a number of representative sources stored in the funds of the State Archive of the Kirovohrad Region. The main content of the generalizing conclusions and directions for further research on this problem is that it allows us to clarify the relationship between labor «achievements» of the Soviet era and labor incentive mechanisms, to trace how Soviet methods of control over labor discipline influenced the modern labor culture of Ukrainians, to understand how socialist competition contributed to increased productivity, and to assess the degree of the incentive system effectiveness in comparison with modern, market-based methods of motivation. Therefore, studying the system of rewards and disciplinary sanctions in Ukraine under Soviet control, using the example of censorship bodies, will allow for a more thorough investigation of Soviet management methods and an assessment of their impact on the nature of labor relations in modern Ukraine.